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Add Spice To Your Life With Orange

I love color! The tagline for my business is: Luscious Color. Lasting Quality. Its color that makes my heart sing! So when I read that Sally Russick, of The Studio Sublime ,was hosting a color challenge blog hop, I signed up right away!

While playing with some crayons, Sally got the idea to host this color challenge. Participants each chose one color to work with – and one color only! We could use all shades and variations of our chosen color, but no other colors. For someone who designs for the joy of rich color combinations, being confined to just one color was, indeed, a challenge.

I chose the color orange and had the good fortune of having been given a number of orange art beads recently. I received orange spacer beads from Erin Siegel in a bead swap at the Philadelphia Bead Fest in April. After the bead swap we had a drawing for door prizes and I won the fantastic orange polymer clay heart by artist extraordinaire, Staci Smith. The two enamel beads near the pendant are by Barbara Lewis of Painting With Fire. There’s also one small lampwork bead by Radiant Mind. The remainder of the necklace consists of artisan and commercially produced ceramic beads, handmade Indonesian glass, pressed glass, copper and brass.

“Orange You Glad I Love You?” necklace

I wanted to challenge myself a bit, so I strung the pendant and beads on cotton cording. I’ve only done a few necklaces and earrings with cording and I’m having fun experimenting with it. I’ve recently started making some of my own clasps. The clasp on this necklace is hand formed and forged of brass and it hooks into an orange resin ring.

“Orange You Glad I Love You?” necklace, with handmade clasp

I haven’t had time to add this to my shop yet, but if you are interested, contact me or leave a comment below.